Five ways journalists can use Twitter better
Post by Columbia University’s Sree Sreenivasan on ways journalists can effectively leverage Twitter, the leading micro-blogging service
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Case study: Knowledge-based journalism and the UNC News21 experience
Case study by UNC-Chapel Hill on giving a group of highly motivated journalism the means, knowledge and training necessary for them to create a innovative news product.
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Understanding financial statements
While many journalists focus on press releases about companies’ performance, financial statements — found in a company’s 10-Q and 10-K filings with the SEC — are the no-spin zone of business reporting.
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How to use SEC filings to cover companies
Six important Securities and Exchange Commission filings that business journalists need to know how to read quickly and effectively.
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Reading economic data releases from the government
Writing about the economy has to involve numbers, but it doesn’t have to be deadly dull. While the numbers are the story, a good economic journalist uses real-life examples to make those numbers come alive.
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U.S. religious knowledge survey
2010 survey by Pew Research Center on Americans’ understanding of religious tenets, practices, history and legal dynamics.
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Feature writing: Crafting research-based stories with characters, development and a structural arc
Semester-long syllabus that teaches students how to write stories with characters, show development and follow a structural arc.
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Basic newswriting: Learn how to originate, research and write breaking-news stories
Syllabus for semester-long course on the fundamentals of covering and writing the news, including how identify a story, gather information efficiently and place it in a meaningful context.
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Committee of Concerned Journalists: The principles of journalism
In 1997 the Committee of Concerned Journalists began a national conversation to identify the principles that underlie journalism.
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